2-17-42 Ally sub sinks a DMS BB Haruna sinks 2x PT boats near kuantuan Jap air hits Pegu/Rangoon japs lose 16!!! planes(mostly oscars) destroyed and we lose 0 how we got these results i do not know! japs bomb palembang,clark,sinyang.singapore we bomb wuchow ichang,kendari and destroy 4 on ground w B-17s. we may need to suspending bombing in china as he has brought up some fighters, but basically i got to bomb him for 2 months straight without opposition Marauders hit gasmata KB raids near darwin and sinks a TK del atk near changsha and we hold del atk wenchow and we hold SAG hits Balikpapan and in 2nd battle we hit BB Hyuga but CL caledon is sunk

2-18-42 action packed turn alert ally sub torps a PB Rangoon air japs lose 2 we lose 1 Japs bomb palembang,clark,singapore,wuchow we bomb wuchow,near pegu with blenheims,kendari(B17) and gasmata ground atk USA CV TF hits Rabaul and caths BB Hiei who i have seen here before and failed to catch. we send a meagre 16 DBs after her and miss. we then bomb rabaul and do poorly. HEAVY RAIN. CURSE YOU RABAUL YOU ARE MY WHITE WHALE I opt to push my luck with the CVs and will try to hit Hiei again, given my track record with Rabaul this is probably not wise, i need to learn patience

jap del. atk near changsha and we hold KB sinks damg'd CL near Darwin and 2x AKLs then she launches large raid on Darwin whose defenders shock the world by destroying 30 carrier planes

so with the Fulmer if I use it anti-shipping should i go 1000 ft as altitude?

I like to use 1000 feet for anti-ship bombing. If I have something with small bombs but good guns [e.g. the F4F], I send them at 100 feet. When you get the B25s with cannons, they are deadly in the anti-shipping role. Can't recall what bomb load the Fulmar carries but I am guessing 2X500 lbs? This is good for any ship save battleships, but you will lose a lot to flack. Better to take on convoys with PB escorts [& no LRCAP] with Fulmars.

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H81-A3 fighters in burma these great fighter squadrons with great pilots are very depleted in planes, im not sure what to do with them, they are not getting replacements. can you advise me on how to restock the AVG squadrons?

2-20 Jap SS torps an AP at EC, i think it might have been empty Japs bomb Makassar, clark,wuchow,singapore KB bombs koepang 2x but there is nothing there because i dont have enough Aviation support around KB bombs poor Ambon which is a wreck KB bombs Makkassar

we nav attack japs convoy moving from balikpapan down near makkassar we miss w dutch bombers we bomb wuchow Balikpapn w 21 B-17s rangoon sweeps we destroy 6 oscars and lose none, i dont know how we are doing this at rangoon but i like it vildebeasts torp an AK japs bombard johore bahru and we do too, and japs lose 200ish, we bombard changsha and japs lose 173 ally CV bomb rabaul and it goes poorly(dont get your hopes up Rabaul, i have something special for you for XMAS)

Jap air hits BB Revenge near Kuantuan with 8 bombs, Revenge shakes it off Japs bomb wuchow and singapore we bomb loyang,wuchow,near pegu

29 B17s hit Balikpapan dest 5 aircraft on ground and 35 runway hits KB had me fooled, they appeared to be leaving the area near ambon but then juked back toward Soerbaja and KB is rewarded KB sinks CL, 3 x TK and 3 x AK, bombs makassar japs del atk wenchow and we hold out japs atk Sambas and we hold our SAG bombards balikpapan, but now this sag is in danger because of KB coming back. basically this turn we see me not showing KB the proper level of fear, and getting burned for it

AVG squadrons withdraw. But if I remember correctly (I usually don't) you are playing with withdraws off. If I am wrong the AVG withdraw in the near future. So becareful putting new fighters in these units. I think they return the planes to the pool but not for sure. Anyways you can upgrade them to P40Es or P39s, etc. Check the base supply situation if they are not takeing replacements or the replacement allowed switch and the upgrade allowed switch. Make sure all those are taken care of. I would say your supply is probably low. You are in China by the way.

2-25-42 cont 2 japs AKs run into mines at bataan and get messed up, i talk to my opponent about it and offer a do-over since it was accidental and he declines. I agree thats its not that major japs bomb palembang hitting the same akls which sink, bomb near wuchow, hit singapore and johore bahru we bomb near pegu, near nanning, we miss bb hyuga with small dutch air atk RN CVs strike some hapless transports above kuantuan region

2-26-42 BB Warspite massacres a group of LBs on the way to Gasmata and sinks 5 Japs bomb Makassar, also near wuchow, and Johore Bahru we bomb loyang,vildebeasts miss the BB Haruna near Mersing Del atk at Johore Bahru reduces fort to 1

3-2-42 ASW hits jap sub near batavia Japs airraid makassar,clark,near sinyang, singapore, johore bahru, and wuchow lot more air and land activity in china, air forces seem to have shifted off clark to china we bomb near loyang,near pegu, johore bahru,and gasmata jap landing at wenchow supported by bb nagato jap del atk chengchow fort 3 we hold they lose 2000 to our 800 jap del atk near changsha we hold jap del atk near wenchow we hold jap del atk tsiaotso we hold but are outnumbered bad, 2 divisions identified KB heading near babeldaob we have a debacle at pegu, if you are a new player read this carefully ok so i want to conduct an offensive near Rangoon because i know that the good japanese units are down at singpore so i believe he is pushing up to Rangoon with inferior RTA units prematurely(this is all theory). So i have 2 good divisions and 3 brigades/regiments of armor earmarked to try a counter attack 1 hex above pegu. here is the issue, if you want to move infantry and armor, know that the armor will get to the enemy 1st before the infantry if you move them both at the same time, I did not know this(though in retrospect is makes sense) below screenshot shows you what can happen if you arrive piecemeal against a concentrated foe. Note the vehicles destroyed and squads dest, as the armor arrives but the infantry is still marching. I can see into the future though and i will tell you that sometimes bad things happen and then it turns out to be a good thing... more action in the future near rangoon

3-3-42 Japs cont unloading at wenchow, why do a naval landing at wenchow when you could march overland? japs sub torps an AK near palmyra Japs bomb makassar, singapore, near changsha, Johore bahru, sinyang we bomb chengchow, near pegu, we bomb rabaul w marauders and hit apd, we bomb balikpapan w b-17s jap del atk at chengchow, they lose 2000 we lose 1500 fort 2 japs chapture wenchow and we lose 2500 we mass blenheims to help out at pegu/rangoon area